Bamako
Bamako is the capital of Mali and straddles the Niger River. With a population of around 2.5 million in 2020, it's the largest city in Mali and one of the largest in West Africa.Photo: FischerFotos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Rgaudin, Public domain.
- Type: City with 1,810,000 residents
- Description: capital of Mali
- Also known as: “Bammaco” and “Bammako”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sacred Heart Cathedral and BCEAO Tower.
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Church
The Sacred Heart Cathedral is located in Bamako, the capital of Mali, and serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Bamako.
BCEAO Tower
Bank
The BCEAO Tower is a building in Bamako, Mali. At 20 stories and 80m high, it is the tallest building in the West African region. It sits on the north bank of the Niger River in the center of the City of Bamako.
Bamako
- Categories: first-level administrative division and locality
- Location: Koulikoro, Mali, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.6493° or 12° 38′ 58″ northLongitude
-8.0003° or 8° 0′ 1″ westPopulation
1,810,000Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)IATA airport code
BKOUnited Nations Location Code
ML BKOOpen location code
7C4HJXXX+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 27564954OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2460596Wikidata ID
Q3703
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bamako” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bamako”
- Albanian: “Bamako”
- Amharic: “ባማኮ”
- Arabic: “باماكو”
- Arabic: “بامكو”
- Aragonese: “Bamako”
- Armenian: “Բամակո”
- Asturian: “Bamaku”
- Azerbaijani: “Bamako”
- Balinese: “Bamako”
- Bambara: “Bamakɔ”
- Bambara: “Bàmakɔ”
- Bashkir: “Бамако”
- Basque: “Bamako”
- Belarusian: “Бамако”
- Bengali: “বামাকো”
- Bosnian: “Bamako”
- Breton: “Bamako”
- Bulgarian: “Бамако”
- Catalan: “Bamako”
- Cebuano: “Bamako Region”
- Central Kurdish: “باماکۆ”
- Chechen: “Бамако”
- Chinese: “Bamako”
- Chinese: “巴馬科”
- Chinese: “巴马科”
- Chuvash: “Бамако”
- Croatian: “Bamako”
- Czech: “Bamako”
- Danish: “Bamako”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bamako”
- Dutch: “Bamako”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باماكو”
- Esperanto: “Bamako”
- Estonian: “Bamako”
- Extremaduran: “Bamako”
- Fiji Hindi: “Bamako”
- Finnish: “Bamako”
- French: “Bamako”
- Fulah: “Bamako”
- Galician: “Bamaco”
- Georgian: “ბამაკო”
- German: “Bamako”
- Greek: “Μπαμακό”
- Greek: “Μπαμάκο”
- Guarani: “Vámako”
- Gujarati: “બામાકો”
- Haitian: “Bamako”
- Hakka Chinese: “Bamako”
- Hausa: “Bamako”
- Hebrew: “במקו”
- Hindi: “बमाको”
- Hungarian: “Bamako”
- Icelandic: “Bamakó”
- Ido: “Bamako”
- Iloko: “Bamako”
- Inari Sami: “Bamako”
- Indonesian: “Bamako”
- Interlingua: “Bamako”
- Interlingue: “Bamako”
- Irish: “Bamako”
- Italian: “Bamako”
- Japanese: “バマコ”
- Javanese: “Bamako”
- Jju: “Bamako”
- Kabiyè: “Pamakoo”
- Kabyle: “Bamaku”
- Kannada: “ಬಮಾಕೋ”
- Kazakh: “Бамако”
- Kinyarwanda: “Bamako”
- Kirghiz: “Бaмако шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Бамако”
- Komering: “Bamako”
- Kongo: “Bamako”
- Korean: “바마코”
- Kotava: “Bamako”
- Kurdish: “Bamako”
- Latin: “Bamako”
- Latvian: “Bamako”
- Ligurian: “Bamako”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Bamako”
- Lithuanian: “Bamakas”
- Livvi: “Bamako”
- Lombard: “Bamako”
- Low German: “Bamako”
- Luxembourgish: “Bamako”
- Macedonian: “Бамако”
- Malagasy: “Bamako”
- Malay: “Bamako”
- Malayalam: “ബാമാകോ”
- Maltese: “Bamako”
- Maori: “Pamako”
- Marathi: “बमाको”
- Mazanderani: “باماکو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Bamako”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bamako”
- Minangkabau: “Bamako”
- Mingrelian: “ბამაკო”
- Moksha: “Бамака”
- Moksha: “Бамако”
- Mongolian: “Бамако”
- Moroccan Arabic: “باماكو”
- N'Ko: “ߓߊ߲߬ߓߊ߬ ߞߐ”
- N'Ko: “ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߫”
- Navajo: “Táłkááʼtsʼin Bitooʼ”
- Neapolitan: “Bamako”
- Northern Frisian: “Bamako”
- Northern Sami: “Bamako”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bamako”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bamako”
- Norwegian: “Bamako”
- Novial: “Bamako”
- Nyanja: “Bamako”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bamako”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܡܩܘ”
- Ossetian: “Бамако”
- Panjabi: “ਬਮਾਕੋ”
- Papiamento: “Bamako”
- Persian: “باماکو”
- Piemontese: “Bamako”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bamaakoe”
- Polish: “Bamako”
- Portuguese: “Bamaco”
- Portuguese: “Bamako”
- Pushto: “باماکو”
- Romanian: “Bamako”
- Russian: “Бамако”
- Russian: “Баммако”
- Rusyn: “Бамако”
- Santali: “ᱵᱟᱢᱟᱠᱳ”
- Sardinian: “Bamako”
- Scots: “Bamako”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bamako”
- Serbian: “Бамако”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bamako”
- Shona: “Bamako”
- Sicilian: “Bamako”
- Silesian: “Bamako”
- Sindhi: “بماڪو”
- Sinhala: “බමාකෝ දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Sinhala: “බමාකෝ”
- Skolt Sami: “Bamako”
- Slovak: “Bamako”
- Slovenian: “Bamako”
- Somali: “Bamako”
- South Azerbaijani: “باماکو”
- Spanish: “Bamako”
- Swahili: “Bamako”
- Swati: “Bamako”
- Swedish: “Bamako”
- Tagalog: “Bamako”
- Tajik: “Бамако”
- Tamil: “பமாக்கோ”
- Tamil: “பம்கோ”
- Telugu: “బమాకో”
- Telugu: “బామకో”
- Thai: “บามาโก”
- Tibetan: “བ་མ་ཀོ།”
- Turkish: “Bamako”
- Turkmen: “Bamako”
- Tyap: “Bamako”
- Udmurt: “Бамако”
- Ukrainian: “Бамако”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bamako”
- Urdu: “بماکو”
- Uzbek: “Bamako”
- Venetian: “Bamako”
- Veps: “Bamako”
- Vietnamese: “Bamako”
- Volapük: “Bamako”
- Võro: “Bamako”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bamako”
- Welsh: “Bamako”
- Western Frisian: “Bamako”
- Western Mari: “Бамако”
- Western Panjabi: “بماکو”
- Wu Chinese: “巴马科”
- Yiddish: “באמאקא”
- Yiddish: “באַמאַקא”
- Yoruba: “Bamako”
- Yue Chinese: “巴馬科”
- Zeeuws: “Bamako”
- Zulu: “i-Bamako”
- “Bamako”
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